Architecture & Urban Design

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360º panoramic views and virtual tours of selected European and Middle Eastern cities and Ancient Near Eastern archaeological sites.

Provides vetted and standardized architectural drawings of a selection of ancient Egyptian buildings.

Aquae Urbis Romae is an interactive cartographic history of the relationships between hydrological and hydraulic systems and their impact on the urban development of Rome, Ital. beginning in in 753 BC.

Arches is an open-source, web-based, geospatial information system for cultural heritage inventory and management. Purpose-built for the international cultural heritage field, Arches is designed to record all types of immovable heritage, including archaeological sites, buildings and other historic structures, landscapes, and heritage ensembles or districts.

MIT ARC Group's YouTube channel (sponsored by Prof. Takehiko Nagakura). Includes: 360 on Plan: Learning Center in Vienna by Zaha Hadid (interactive panorama video); Desktop Heritage Viewer: Villa Foscari (v2), and more.

Simulations of multiple “Augustan Romes” to facilitate the assessment of building and material distributions, viewsheds, constructionscapes, and urban circulation routes in time and space.

Explore the history of Natchitoches Parish (Louisiana) using Arches open source software

Includes a 3-D Virtual Reality model of the temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak and more.

A digital model of the Roman Forum as it appeared in late antiquity.

Information about archaeological sites and landscapes which are under threat, recorded using Arches 3 heritage management software.

View and navigate floor plans of several commercial locations such as airports, department stores, malls, and more within Google Maps. Indoor Maps is only available in selected locations. Check availability at: Indoor Maps Availability

Explore Petra, the Pyramids of Giza, Angkor Wat, the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower, Burj Khalifa, and more!

Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory

HyperCities is a digital research and educational platform for exploring, learning about, and interacting with the layered histories of city and global spaces.

An interative web-based platform for mapping the cultural, architectural, and urban history of Berlin.

Mapping Gothic France builds upon a theoretical framework derived from the work of Henri Lefèbvre (The Production of Space) that seeks to establish linkages between the architectural space of individual buildings, geo-political space, and the social space resulting from the interaction (collaboration and conflict) between multiple agents -- builders and users.

“Google has partnered with 3D laser-scanning nonprofit CyArk to help preserve historical sites around the world that are at risk of irreversible damage or total erasure due to human conflict and natural disasters. The joint effort, called the Open Heritage project, will use CyArk’s laser-scanning technology to capture all the relevant data at a historical site needed to recreate it virtually, so it can be preserved and explored online either on a computer, through a mobile device, or while wearing a virtual reality headset.”...

Virtual Tour

Information collected through an ongoing national-scale heritage survey of the Philippines, presented in the Arches platform.

Digital representations of the Carolingian St. Gall monastic complex.

A community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places.

A project in visualization from the Applied Laboratory for Interactive Visualization and Embodiment (ALiVE), City University of Hong Kong: the documentation / contextualization / augmentation / animation of murals in the Mogao World Heritage site.

REVISION is a regional mapping and analysis application that integrates a range of public and private data for sustainable communities planning and trend visualization.

3D digital models illustrating the urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlement in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1000 B.C.) to the depopulation of the city in the early Middle Ages (ca. A.D. 550).

Created by a team from the University of Notre Dame interested in virtual representations of the built environment. Mobile application Available in the App Store for iPads and iPhones.

A real-time visual simulation model.

Sites from the early Middle Ages in the eastern Alps and its surrounding regions (Slovenia, Austria, on the NW Croatian coast, and in the NE regions in Italy) mapped using the Arches Heritage Management & Inventory System.